The Nazification of the Republican Party

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REAVERFAN

Saturday, January 23, 2021 4:52 AM

Even After January 6, Some in Media Can’t Kick Their Addiction to False Balance
https://fair.org/home/even-after-january-6-some-media-cant-kick-their-
addiction-to-false-balance/

In the wake of the unprecedented events of January 6, many in corporate media—on both the editorial and reporting sides—have displayed a new and refreshing ability to apply accurate labels to people and their behaviors (“sedition,” “incitement,” “white nationalists,” etc.) and to apportion blame based on reality, not a wished-for fantasy of balance.

That false concept of balance, which FAIR has criticized for years (e.g., FAIR.org, 9/30/04, 9/17/20), is finally coming under greater scrutiny. As Washington Post media critic Margaret Sullivan (1/17/21) recently wrote: “When one side consistently engages in bad-faith falsehoods, it’s downright destructive to give them equal time.”

And many of her colleagues appear to have finally absorbed that lesson as they cover this month’s events. Where previous coverage of Trump and his followers often strained to balance the positive and the negative (e.g., FAIR.org, 6/1/17, 7/24/19), reporting and analysis of the insurrection and its aftermath have largely cast aside attempts at false balance. At CNN.com (1/12/21), a news headline unequivocally announced, “Defiant Trump Denounces Violence but Takes No Responsibility for Inciting Deadly Riot,” using language corporate media in the past would typically have reserved for opinion pieces. In the New York Times (1/6/21), after quoting several of Trump’s statements to the crowd, Rudolph Giuliani’s call for “trial by combat” against the Democrats and Donald Trump Jr.’s “we’re coming for you” threat to Republicans who wouldn’t back Trump’s efforts to overturn the democratic election, reporter Maggie Haberman wrote directly, “Mr. Trump helped set in motion hours of violence and chaos that continued as darkness fell on Wednesday.”

Considering that Trump has few allies left within the establishment—even many big businesses have publicly turned against him—perhaps it’s easier for journalists to cast off their commitment to false balance. But it’s far from inevitable. At the New York Times, longtime White House correspondent Peter Baker (1/13/21) proved incapable of escaping the magnetic pull of both sides–ism as he described the second impeachment of Donald Trump :

"With less than a week to go, President Trump’s term is climaxing in violence and recrimination at a time when the country has fractured deeply and lost a sense of itself. Notions of truth and reality have been atomized. Faith in the system has eroded. Anger is the one common ground.

As if it were not enough that Mr. Trump became the only president impeached twice or that lawmakers were trying to remove him with days left in his term, Washington devolved into a miasma of suspicion and conflict. A Democratic member of Congress accused Republican colleagues of helping the mob last week scout the building in advance. Some Republican members sidestepped magnetometers intended to keep guns off the House floor or kept going even after setting them off."

Ah yes, the miasma of suspicion and conflict that envelops all in Washington without distinction, as each side gets their dander up over actions they find offensive. It’s all equivalent, isn’t it? But let’s be frank: The country has not lost a sense of itself here. One faction of the country has been encouraged and enabled by Trump and his GOP supporters to embrace an increasingly vocal and emboldened fascism. That the New York Times‘ senior White House scribe cannot bring himself to distinguish between these things seems reason enough to disqualify him from his job.

But he continued, describing the impeachment debate:

Most lawmakers quickly retreated back to their partisan corners.

As Democrats demanded accountability, many Republicans pushed back and assailed them for a rush to judgment without hearings or evidence or even much debate. Mr. Trump’s accusers cited his inflammatory words at a rally just before the attack. His de

1KIKI

Saturday, January 23, 2021 5:08 AM

Quote:
if editors learn anything from the events of the last four years, it should be that “balance” is a dangerous substitute for fairness and accuracy.

WTF is "fairness"? A biased coder creating a website to document ALL the faces in front of the Capitol Building on Jan 6, 2021, and not just the rioters who broke in?

What a crock.

I'd settle for IMPORTANCE, COMPLETENESS, AND ACCURACY.

Every bit of news treats us like we're simpletons, unable to understand a complicated and nuanced reality. And that we need to have our thoughts guided with simple stories and real-sounding factoids (without evidence) told to us by sincere-faced news-actors and instant experts and tptb mouthpieces.

THO I GUARANTEE ALL THIS THEATER TO GUIDE US FOR OUR OWN GOOD. I'M SURE OF IT. /sarcasm

And so reading a simple news article or watching a news show is like writing a fucking PhD dissertation, where I have to track down every original research paper or project report or 'source' background just to try to figure out what the fuck is going on with any particular presentation.

What an obvious crock they're shoveling at us, from all directions.

RF is a shoveler. It's that simple.

6IXSTRINGJACK

Saturday, January 23, 2021 7:43 AM

Marcos: Shits on independent journalism.

Also Marcos: Can't stop posting videos by independent journalist Vaush.

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A government is a body of people usually, notably, governed by Mark Zuckerborg and Slack Dorsey.

REAVERFAN

Saturday, January 23, 2021 11:17 AM

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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Marcos: Shits on independent journalism.

Also Marcos: Can't stop posting videos by independent journalist Vaush.

Nazincel still can't tell fact from fiction.

Shapiro Plays The Victim as His School Shooter Movie Bombs

Ben Shapiro: Racial inequality doesn’t exist (despite massive proof). Source: None.
Also Ben Shapiro: Conservatives are oppressed. Source: Trust me, bro!

REAVERFAN

Saturday, January 23, 2021 2:24 PM

Jimmy Dore's Dangerous Lightbulb Moment

Don't fall for this bullshit.

REAVERFAN

Thursday, January 28, 2021 1:59 AM

Video Investigation: Proud Boys Were Key Instigators in Capitol Riot
The Proud Boys, a far-right group, have tried to downplay their role in the Capitol riot. A WSJ investigation shows that at many of the day’s key moments, Proud Boys were at the forefront.
https://www.wsj.com/video/video-investigation-proud-boys-were-key-inst
igators-in-capitol-riot/37B883B6-9B19-400F-8036-15DE4EA8A015.html

REAVERFAN

Thursday, January 28, 2021 7:48 PM

How Trump Brought Nazis Into Republican Politics
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/trump-nazis-white-supremacists
-kenosha-charlottesville-very-fine-people.html

Yesterday, President Trump retweeted a video of a man on a New York subway platform shoving and injuring a white woman. In normal times, it would have been unfathomable to determine why the president of the United States would take an interest in this case. The assault took place a year ago, and the perpetrator was arrested in short order.

But the actual source of Trump’s interest is perfectly obvious. The perpetrator was Black, and the victim white. The video was shared, and seems to have come to Trump’s attention, by an account called “I’m With Groyper.” For those unfamiliar, “Groypers” are a white-supremacist sect who criticize other far-right groups for failing to be explicitly “pro-white.”

Trump has a way of wearing down journalists by violating norms so often and so shamelessly that it ceases to be newsworthy. During the 2016 campaign, when he shared a white-supremacist image using a Jewish star to depict Hillary Clinton as being bought and controlled by the Jews, it caused enough of a controversy that Trump’s campaign was forced to insist it had somehow mistaken the image for a sheriff star.

But Trump has retweeted enough decontextualized, random videos of nonwhite people attacking white people — indeed, he shared the same 2019 subway attack clip in June — that it has lost its shock value. But it is this very banality that makes Trump’s behavior so significant. The president is in the habit of promoting a wide array of his supporters, and we all have grown accustomed to the fact that some of those supporters are, well, Nazis.

6IXSTRINGJACK

Thursday, January 28, 2021 7:56 PM

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A government is a body of people usually, notably, governed by Mark Zuckerborg and Slack Dorsey.

REAVERFAN

Thursday, January 28, 2021 8:44 PM

The Nazi thinks that's funny. Go figure.

REAVERFAN

Thursday, January 28, 2021 9:28 PM

Mike Pence is 'homeless' and 'couch surfing' after being booted from the vice president's residence - and may be putting off buying a new property over safety concerns after MAGA mob called for him to be hanged
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9194445/Mike-Pence-homeless-c
ouch-surfing-booted-Vice-Presidents-residence.html

Looks like his Christofascist dreams aren't working out like he thought.

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